The IA Gazette
Squad3 May 2027
Dimitris Kolovetsios wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and IA know it.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at IA
Einar Karl Ingvarsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom3 May 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at IA
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at IA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gísli Eyjólfsson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings3 May 2027
One of those days for Gísli Eyjólfsson
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.86, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad3 May 2027
No hiding place for Árni Marinó Einarsson
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Árni Marinó Einarsson, and the manager let it.
Market3 May 2027
One of our own: Holmar Saevarsson joins the IA first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Holmar Saevarsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market3 May 2027
Kolbeinn Skulason steps up from the IA academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kolbeinn Skulason has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market3 May 2027
Arnor Johannsson steps up from the IA academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Arnor Johannsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market IA promote Olafur Finnbogason from within
- Player ratings Gísli Laxdal was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Match Gísli Eyjólfsson rescues a point for IA